Chapter 208 Cang Ling's Sword Discussion (Twenty-Three)

()    When he pushed open the temple door, Feng Bujue thought there would be a creaking sound of wood and dust blowing in his face.

As a result, the door opened very smoothly. When the wooden shafts of the two door panels turned, there was almost no sound, as if it was still very new. And the scenery inside the door was not covered with cobwebs and dusty.

Inside the door was a Buddhist temple. There were no other doors or rooms. The light from outside penetrated directly through the window gap. Players could see the scenery inside even without a flashlight.

There were two beams and four pillars in the house. The ground was paved with blue-gray stone bricks, and the walls were also made of bricks and wood.

On both sides of the Buddhist temple, there were two rows of red-painted copper racks leaning against the wall. There were four layers of racks, each layer was filled with white candles, but at this moment, none of these candles were lit.

And at the end of the Buddhist temple facing the gate, the only Buddha statue enshrined was a headless Buddha.

The Buddha statue stood upright, with the five fingers of his right hand clasped together, and his palm raised, while his left hand, like his head, was missing.

"Hmm... It's hard to tell which deity it is just from this posture." Feng Bujue walked forward, muttering to himself: "Is this lacquer-painted statue... something from the Yuan Dynasty..."

Suddenly, Siyu's hand pressed on Feng Bujue's shoulder and pulled him back. At this moment, a puff of black smoke emerged from the ground not far in front of Feng Bujue.

Feng Bujue's attention was focused on the Buddha statue just now, and he didn't pay attention to his feet. If Siyu hadn't pulled him, he would have stepped on it.

But the black smoke rose, gathering but not dispersing, and then a shadow emerged from it.

The person who appeared in the smoke was an old monk wrapped in a cassock, with purple skin, white beard, and dark pupils. His image was very scary, but his face was upright and majestic, not like an evil person.

"Why are you here? Why did you come to my Cangling Temple?" the evil monk asked.

"We are just passing by." Feng Bujue said, "I heard that there are wronged souls here, so I came to investigate."

"Passing by? Humph..." The evil monk said again, "I see that the two of you have awakened your spiritual consciousness, I'm afraid you are not ordinary people?"

"I see that your face is purple, and you are full of evil spirits, I'm afraid you are not even ordinary people?" Feng Bujue asked back.

"Ha...hahahaha..." The evil monk laughed, "Good, good one, not even ordinary people..."

The windows in the temple were suddenly covered by a black fog, completely blocking the light outside. However, this pitch-black situation did not last long. The next second, all the candles around were lit, emitting a green light.

In this dark and bright, the image of the evil monk has changed drastically, completely turning into a Shura-like evil ghost. His height has risen to ten feet, his knotty muscles hold up his clothes, and his beard and hair have turned red. His face was full of demonic aura and he looked at Feng Bujue with wide eyes.

Seeing this, Siyu wanted to raise her sword to meet him, but Feng Bujue blocked her, turned his head and winked, as if to say... no need to do anything yet.

"You are like that tree, a ghost transformed by a little girl named 'Ling'er', and became what you are now, right?" Feng Bujue asked.

"So what?" The demon monk's voice also changed, and the voice could not be described as rough, but only as "rough".

"I just want to ask, are you willing to stay in this state?" Feng Bujue said: "Or are you involuntarily, and attacking us who come up the mountain under her control?"

"If I am under her control, can you still stand and talk to me now?" The demon monk asked.

"Then you are willing to be a demon and harm the people?" Feng Bujue said.

"I became what I am now because of the child's resentment. Unless her resentment is eliminated, I... and all the ghosts on this mountain will be trapped in this mountain and will never be reborn." The demon monk replied: "But... killing you people from Cangling Town is all our own will."

"Is it because the people from Cangling Town killed Ling'er unjustly?" Feng Bujue asked tentatively.

"Humph..." The demon monk snorted coldly: "I guess you are also the magician they invited to exorcise ghosts?"

"Of course not, if so, do you think you can still stand and talk to me now?" Feng Bujue replied arrogantly.

"Hmm?" The demon monk was stunned when he heard that. He leaned forward and said, "You are so arrogant, kid."

"I don't have time to talk nonsense with you. Answer my question." Feng Bujue said, "Maybe I can help you."

"Just you? Hahaha..." The demon monk laughed again, "Do you know why this place is called 'Cangling'?"

"Why?" Feng Bujue didn't know, so he asked directly according to the other party's words.

The demon monk turned around and pointed to the headless Buddha behind him with his arm as thick as a thigh: "This is the dojo of an arhat. There is a secret treasure of the Buddhist sect hidden in the temple - the Vajra Bell." He put down his arm and stared at Feng Bujue: "And I am the only monk in this temple." At this point, he seemed to remember what happened in the past. A trace of fear appeared on his ferocious face: "But now? Look at me, what have I become?"

"Oh? Is the Vajra Bell very powerful?" Feng Bujue crossed his hands in front of his chest, put on an expression of disapproval, and asked with his head up.

"You are a charlatan who doesn't know how to live or die. You naturally don't know how powerful the Vajra Bell is!" The evil monk was fooled and began to talk endlessly: "The Vajra Bell is a treasure of Tantric Buddhism. It can activate the power of countless talismans... illusion, shikigami, summoning, puppetry, praying for blessings, praying for rain, curing diseases, settling down, stopping disasters... driving ghosts and gods, all-encompassing. It can even guide the bad luck of the person to the state of liberation, subdue the evil spirits, transcend desires, change the fixed pattern of the five elements, yin and yang, and eight characters, and change fate."

"Where is that thing now?" Feng Bujue didn't show anything on his face, but he was thinking confidently in his heart: "Vajra Bell, I'll take it."

"What? You want to take the bell?" The evil monk asked.

The moment this question was asked, Feng Bujue was 70% sure that this was the mission FLAG!

He immediately turned his head and glanced at Siyu, who understood and didn't reply, but just nodded slightly to indicate his agreement.

"Yes!" Feng Bujue replied immediately.

[Main quest progress update]

[Enter the Bell Realm and look for Ling'er's soul. ]

Sure enough, the system prompt sounded immediately, and the main quest in the game menu also changed.

"You said you wanted to help us, let me see if you have the ability." The demon monk laughed, and as he said that, he stepped down on the spot, with the force of thunder hitting the mountain. The stone bricks on the ground collapsed in an instant, and a crack about two meters long appeared. It seemed that a sad wailing sound could be heard from the mouth, but looking down, it was just pitch black.

"If you want the Vajra Bell, go ask the child yourself." The demon monk said, stretching out his palm. In his palm, there was also a bell exactly the same as the one given by the tree demon before, "Take the bell and jump down."

Feng Bujue did not let Siyu go forward to take it, but reached out and took the item himself, and then handed it to Siyu. Then, he politely said to the tall monster in front of him: "Thank you for your advice, Master."

"Stop talking nonsense. Many people have gone down, but no one has come back alive. The only one who came back... is Lingling." The demon monk replied.

Feng Bujue felt that this part of the plot was almost over. He turned back and said to Siyu: "Well... let's make a slogan and jump down together."

"First of all, I reject the slogan 'You jump, I jump'." She answered directly.

"Tsk..." Feng Bujue looked like his trick was exposed: "Then I'll count to one, two, three."